Committee: Security Council

Country: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KIA)

Delegate: Yukhappynaly Si
Topic Area: The calls for international solidarity and transparency toward the combat of the
COVID 19 crisis.

Thank you, Honorable Chairman

COVID-19 Start the epidemic, the first case since 1 December 2019 in Wuhan, China. In
June 04, 2020 COVID-19 have confirmed about 6,589,336 cases, Recovered 3,182,754 and
388,318 people deaths around the world.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic spread to Saudi Arabia on March 2, 2020, when the
Ministry of Health confirmed the first case in the kingdom. The Health Ministry revealed that
the case is a Saudi national traveling from Iran to the kingdom through Bahrain. On May 11,
the kingdom had 41,014 confirmed cases, the highest of the states of the Arabian Gulf with
12,737 recoveries and 255 deaths.

This COVID-19 has many significant impacts on the financial, economic situation and the
people in this country in Saudi Arabia. COVID-19 crisis poses threat to financial stability, the
measures necessary to contain the virus have triggered an economic downturn. The latest
Global Financial Stability Report shows that the financial system has already felt a dramatic
impact, and a further intensification of the crisis could affect global financial stability because
of Saudi Arabia is the biggest oil producer in the world and also the powerful kingdom of oil
that why the case of COVID-19 the Saudi Arabia faces severe losses in oil sales. The outlook
for 2020 remains very weak in the wake of COVID-19 and oil supply. Medium-term fiscal
balances are estimated to continue in deficit risking the ability in realizing Vision 2030 fiscal
targets.

With cases of COVID-19 also reported within Saudi Arabia, the country’s Ministry of Health
is scaling up surveillance and testing measures. The Ministry has designated 25 hospitals,
amounting to 80 000 hospital beds and 8000 intensive care unit (ICU) beds. The country has
also produced ‘Your Ultimate Guide to COVID19’ to give citizens and residents access to
COVID-19 facts and precautionary messages in 12 languages. Actions to engage the public in
prevention and control activities, and to combat rumors and false information about the
disease, have been significantly scaled up. To help alleviate hunger during these times, in
cooperation with the Charity Coalition for Humanitarian Relief, Saudi Arabia has recently
distributed 1200 food baskets weighing about 88 tons in the areas adjacent to Saada
governorate of Yemen, benefiting 6,000 people. In response to an urgent WHO appeal, Saudi
Arabia is also donating US$ 10 million to support all countries of the Region in their national
COVID-19 response to combat the spread of the disease. An additional US$ 10 million is in
the process of being donated to provide WHO Yemen with essential equipment and supplies
as part of Yemen’s national readiness and response plan.

The Saudi Arabia would like to raise a few resolutions:

1. Around the world, Action Against Hunger is scaling up to save lives: we are helping
to control the spread of COVID-19, supporting health centers, raising awareness
about how to prevent outbreaks, and providing badly-needed supplies that range from
medicine to hygiene.
2. As we can see, The United States that is one of the country that have an advance
technology and the economic that grow rapidly each year have been facing a big crisis
due to the Covid-19. Due to the lack of awareness and negligent of the virus itself.
Due to that, there are a lot of people are infected and the virus keep spreading all
across the country but also USA is the only one country that can help the world to
find a better way and find the vaccine protects against the virus.
3. The whole world should come together to strengthen communication to prevent risk
and identify viruses properly and prevent them from spreading. In particular, the
powerful countries like USA, Russia, China, French, United Kingdom should help
other people affected by this crisis and have a shortage of other areas.
4. In The People's Republic of China, the disease is rapidly declining but the disease
originates from Wuhan so the country should take preventive measures and find ways
to prevent it, as well as help other organizations involved in the fight against the
deadly disease.
5. More than 90% people worldwide live in countries with travel restrictions amid
COVID-19 but some countries still grant theirs people to travel and don’t closed the
borders. The government in every country should responses suspension of
international and domestic passenger flights and also public transportation to help
protect our country from infection and spread.

To win this evolving battle, we must continue to act together as one in solidarity. While there
are new cases reported every day, the whole Government must continue to work together to
support the health sector's preparedness and response, whilst maintaining the essential
services and adjusting social measures that allow the world to function. Each and every
person will also need to play their role. Communities must be empowered with the
knowledge and skills they need to play their part in this struggle.